Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spread over three days is a series of concerts, variety shows and receptions saluting states, ethnic minorities, and just about anyone else who really wants to be saluted. The cost ranges from $10 to $500. For the parade itself, a choice box seat on Pennsylvania Avenue runs $50. A couple attending the inauguration could spend a total of $1,590 for tickets. However, as one official was at pains to point out, "there is no charge for standing space along the route...
...sure enough, a few days later a plane from Houston landed at Las Mercedes loaded with food and medical supplies marked for transshipment to Granada. On a less parochial level, many Nicaraguans agree with Managua Architect Samuel Barreto that a new capital should be located elsewhere if only to "spread the life of the nation throughout the country...
...year-"basic educational opportunity grants," immediately nicknamed BOGs -to any needy and qualified student in the nation, and 2) direct operating subsidies to virtually all colleges and universities. The new law's big problem was its price: an estimated $20 billion spread out over the next three years...
...bosses who assured him that they could not deliver their heavily Catholic constituencies for Byrnes because he had abandoned Catholicism in his youth and became a Protestant. James Farley recently told me that the true story is the exact reverse-it was the President who ordered the bosses to spread the story to eliminate Mr. Byrnes. As for Vice President Wallace, F.D.R. sent him off on a trip to China...
...Faculty Council was the first Faculty group to be meeting at Harvard since the bombing began again prior to Christmas vacation, and we thought it was important that members of the Council take a strong position against the reversion to wide spread bombing," he said...